Description
Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, San Francisco and New York, the CityFlow series features on each side a recording of human flows at skateboard speed. We can guess a living cartography of these cities through the data made available by the creators of the Human application, which records human movements in the world’s cities.
For Alexandre Fougea, designer and founder of Akonite, skating is also an urban affair, the boards are tested on the basins of La Défense or Le Trocadéro and are towed by scooter, Jimmy Knoxville and his Jackasses are not that far away. Snowboards, skateboards of all kinds, ultra-luxury surfboards; the permanent friction with the elements brings to Akonite some healthy founding principles – that most of the major players in the sports world ignore: sustainability and ecology, the point being not to destroy what we caress.
